Dr Jessica Baker (PhD student)

Jess Baker is a clinical lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Jess has recently begun her PhD, supervised by Rich Mitchell and Jill Pell on Ethnicity and Cardiovascular risk. Her study aims to examine the best strategy for identifying those at risk of cardiovascular disease in the UKs ethnic minority population. She will be exploring the use of area-based measures of deprivation as a means to target ‘at risk’ populations and comparing how well these work in the white and ethnic minority populations.